1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” — Karen Horney

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“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” — Truman Capote

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“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” — O. Henry

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“Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.” — William Christopher Handy

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“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.” — Hugh Leonard

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“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” — William Cowper

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“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” — Brendan Gill

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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” — Ben Stein

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“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.” — Laurence Sterne

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“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” — Horace Walpole

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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.” — Henry Adams

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“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.” — John Wayne

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“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” — Rosa Parks

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“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” — John Wayne

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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir

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“Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” — Walter Anderson

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“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” — Audrey Hepburn

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